One day one trouble has become the fate of Kano State, especially the metropolis part of the state as yet two female suicide bombers bombed the ancient city within five hours of each other, killing five persons Monday amid Sallah celebrations from Muslim faithful.
The previous day, Sunday, an Improvised Explosive Device, IED, was thrown at a crowd of worshipers coming out of St Charles Catholic Church, Sabon Gari, killing five persons, while another female suicide bomber blew up herself at a police check point at Gidan Murtala, by Kofar Nasarawa overhead bridge.
Monday attack took place at NNPC Mega station located along Eastern Bye-pass where kerosene was being sold to customers in Kano metropolis.
According to the Commissioner of Police in Kano, Mr. Adenrele Shinaba, the female suicide bomber got to the filling station around 10.00am on the pretext of coming to buy kerosene, she wangled her to the long queue of potential kerosene buyers.
She later blew up herself. The police boss explained that doctors at Murtala Muhammad Hospital confirmed three dead out of the 10 persons who were evacuated to the hospital.
Shinaba could not disclose the gender of those who died alongside the suicide bomber, but he said that the seven injured persons were being treated for various degrees of injury at the government hospital.
While people were still moody over the incident, a second bomb attack involving a 19 year-old female suicide bomber occurred around 2 pm at the entrance gate of Kano Trade Fair Complex, in which six persons including two policemen were injured. The suicide bomber died in the process.
One of the adjoining malls to the blast scene, Ado Bayero Mall, was forced to close the mall to the shopping public.
Police spokesman in Kano, ASP Magaji Musa Majiya told newsmen that the female suicide bomber blew up herself as she was about to be screened before entering the complex.
According to Majiya, “because of the high security alert in town, everyone going into the complex is thoroughly searched. When she approached the security men carrying out the search, she detonated the explosive device which she hid under her Hijab.”
ASP Majiya disclosed that six persons including two policemen were injured in the attack and that two have been treated and discharged, while the remaining four are still in the hospital.
He disclosed that the mangled body of the female suicide bomber had been recovered and deposited at an undisclosed government hospital.
At the scene of the bits and pieces of her shattered dress were seen.
